75th Anniversary Celebration
Social Justice Film Festival
The films below will be shown at the 75th Anniversary Celebration from 12:30-5:00 pm on Saturday, September 1st, and from 12:00-4:00 pm on Sunday, September 2nd.
Adventures of a Radical Hillbilly - 1982 - Bill Moyers interviews Myles Horton about his life, Highlander and his philosophy of education. Two one hour sessions.
An Intolerable Burden - 2004 - This tells the story of the enrollment of Matthew and Mae Bertha Carter's 8 children into a previously all-white school in Drew, Mississippi, in 1965. The film also depicts the resegregation in public education that is occurring throughout the country and the fast track to prison. 56 minutes.
Morristown in the Air and Sun - 2007 - A working class look at globalization from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Morristown. This is about immigration, globalization, economic development, and focuses on Morristown in East Tennessee and Mexico. 60 minutes. 2006. Appalshop.
People of the Cumberland - 1937 - A classic documentary that places the camera in front of actual people of Appalachia. It shows Highlander Folk School and labor events in Lafollette Tennessee. 30 minutes.
The Telling Takes Me Home - 2005 - Heather Carawan - A new film about Guy and Candie Carawan, and the importance of music and culture in the supporting work for justice. 29 minutes.
Up the Ridge - Produced by Nick Szuberla and Amelia Kirby - This new film is the story of prisons built in rural Appalachia for economic development and prisoners being brought hundreds of miles to fill the prisons. 60 minutes. 2006. Appalshop.
We Shall Overcome - Narrated by Harry Belafonte, this film provides a history of the song "We Shall Overcome."
You Got to Move - 1982 - Lucy Massey Phenix, the filmmaker will be joining us to watch her film about Highlander Center, a classic. 80 minutes
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